… earning a living one word at a time
“I want to sell articles, but I don’t know what to write about.” This is something I get asked quite a lot, so I thought I would reveal the answer here in case you are having the same problem.
Some writers do have blogs, but you would be surprised by how many don’t. Blogging is not only a skill that should be built up to enable writers to be able to write and sell blog posts to clients, it can help them too.
How indeed? Finding article buyers is a constant task for all freelance writers, whatever markets you aim for and whether they are online or off.
Whew – okay first of all I apologise for the long title! But this is something that people do search for and ask about, so I thought it warranted an answer.
People always say that earning money as a freelance writer is fraught with danger. You never know when your next job is coming in…
This thought occurred to me today as I was writing a batch of articles for a client. It was one of those jobs where you aren’t given any article titles to work from; they just give you a list of their best performing keywords and the rest is up to you. Sometimes that makes the job easier, and sometimes it doesn’t!
But it did make me think about my opinion of SEO…
This just popped into my mind as I’m actually doing a bit of both today. I have a 170+ page book to write for a regular client, and about eight articles to write for another regular of mine.
So it got me thinking. Is one type of writing job better than the other, or is it best to do a bit of both?
Well they certainly seem to. After my decision to cut back on eBooks and focus more on articles, the first week of doing so has made a huge difference to my earnings. Which is very good on what will soon be the run up to Christmas!
Well they say a change is as good as a rest, and that’s certainly what I’m having at the moment. I’ve lost count of how many eBooks I have written for various people this year (and I still have two on the go and three more slated to write for another client), so I felt it was time for a change and a swing back towards articles again.
Have you ever noticed that when you’re quiet on the writing front, you get slower? You could reasonably finish all your work in the morning and have the whole afternoon free to kick back and relax if you wanted to, and yet the smaller amount of work still takes you all day to complete. But when you’re busy you can write so fast your fingers are fairly smoking at the end of the day.
It just occurred to me that I am fast approaching my six month anniversary of deciding to leave my full time job and write full time. My, the time has gone fast…
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